Word: ravenously
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Bishop expected tougher opposition from Princeton. "Bud" Foulke is the Tiger's number one sailor, taking first place in the individual Raven Class Championship at last October's Pine Trophy meet...
Charlie Hoppin led the varsity sailing team to third place behind Princeton and Tufts in the Eastern Raven Class Intercollegiate Championships at New London Saturday...
When Tassoula Petracogeorgi, 19, raven-haired and eager-eyed, met Constantine Kephaloyannis, 32, wealthy and handsome, it was a case of love at first sight of Constantine's mustache. It was also a case of near war (TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Both came from prominent political families in Crete, but Constantine's family was Royalist, Tassoula's Liberal. Tassoula's father forbade the marriage, so Constantine grabbed Tassoula, carried her off to Mount Ida, where they were married in a lonely monastery, then hid in a cave protected by a private army of Constantine...
...bring me 50,000 francs I will denounce him to the police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything." The letter writer invariably used pink stationery, was promptly nicknamed by the press "the pink raven" (in French, the word "raven" is slang for a poison-penner...
...managed to track the raven down until recently a police commissioner in the neighborhood began to get letters ("Madame So-and-So caused two persons to disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect...